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Embedded 3D printing: material-structure-function deep integration
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Embedded 3D printing (EMB-3DP) offers a versatile approach for the integrated fabrication of end-use components featuring innovative architectures and multi-material configurations, meeting the growing demands of advanced sectors including flexible electronics, biomedical engineering, soft robotics, and microfluidic systems. However, fragmented research across materials, structure, and function has impeded the translation of EMB-3DP from laboratory demonstrations to practical applications. Material-structure–function deep integration emerges as a strategic direction for EMB-3DP, providing a pathway to overcome current limitations and accelerate industrial translation. This review synthesizes representative progress since the advent of EMB-3DP, from the perspectives of process, materials, structure, and function, with particular emphasis on key challenges and future directions. We further articulate an academic perspective that positions EMB-3DP as a promising platform for achieving material-structure–function deep integration, and provide systematic solutions to the extensive challenges of additive manufacturing. Material-structure–function deep integration represents a transformative paradigm that guides design and forming strategies in additive manufacturing and supports its technological advancement and sustainable development.
Keywords:
Embedded 3D printing
material-structure-function integration
additive manufacturing
multi-material fabrication
advanced manufacturing
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